This quilt was created by Ernest Haight, who lived in Butler Country, NE, and was developed from a cross-stitch pattern for a pillow top. It won second premium at the Nebraska State Fair in 1970.

One of the many displays in the Renwick Gallery’s new exhibition, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs with more than 240 artworks on view, dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

‘Delta Smelt with Poppies’ (2022), posted earlier: